Chekism, the Glossary
Chekism (Чекизм) is a term that relates to the situation in the Soviet Union where the secret police strongly controlled all spheres of society.[1]
Table of Contents
79 relations: Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Active reserve (KGB), Agent of influence, Agent provocateur, Andrey Illarionov, Anna Politkovskaya, Anti-Americanism, Bolshevism, Breed, Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Cheka, Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Class conflict, Classified information, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Corporatism, Counterintelligence state, Cult of personality, Deep state, Echo of Moscow, Federal Assembly (Russia), Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Free Republic, Grigory Pasko, Ideology, Ion Mihai Pacepa, James Woolsey, KGB, Kommersant, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Konstantin Borovoi, Leninism, List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors, Mafia state, Mankurt, Media freedom in Russia, Ministry of Defence (Russia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia), Mitrokhin Archive, Nashism, Newsweek, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, NKVD, Non-governmental organization, October Revolution, Omertà, Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Political party, Political science, ... Expand index (29 more) »
- Soviet intelligence agencies
- Soviet internal politics
Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov
Abdurakhman Genazovich Avtorkhanov (Абдурахман Геназович Авторханов; Ӏабдурахьма́н Гена́зович Авторха́нов, 23 October 1908 – 24 April 1997) was a Soviet historian and Kremlinologist of Chechen origin who during the Cold War authored popular books on the Soviet Union and its ruling system.
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Active reserve (KGB)
The active reserve of the KGB are members of the organization who work undercover "either pretending to assume various jobs or using as cover professions in which they are actually trained". Chekism and active reserve (KGB) are soviet intelligence agencies.
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Agent of influence
Agent of influence is a controversial term used to describe people who are said to use their position to influence public opinion in one country or decision making to produce results beneficial to another.
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Agent provocateur
An inciting agent is a person who commits, or who acts to entice another person to commit, an illegal or rash act or falsely implicates them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation of, or entice legal action against, the target, or a group they belong to or are perceived to belong to.
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Andrey Illarionov
Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov (Андре́й Никола́евич Илларио́нов, born 16 September 1961) is a Russian economist and former senior policy advisor to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, from April 2000 to December 2005.
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Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005).
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Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism (also called anti-American sentiment and Americanophobia) is a term that can describe several sentiments and positions including opposition to, fear of, distrust of, prejudice against or hatred toward the United States, its government, its foreign policy, or Americans in general.
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Bolshevism
Bolshevism (derived from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the "dictatorship of the proletariat".
Breed
A breed is a specific group of breedable domestic animals having homogeneous appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species.
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick, also known under her pen name and virtual worlds pseudonym "Prokofy Neva", is a former human rights activist, Russian–English translator, former journalist, and a blogger and commentator.
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Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (p), abbreviated as VChK (p), and commonly known as the Cheka (p), was the first Soviet secret police organization. Chekism and Cheka are secret police and soviet intelligence agencies.
Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. Chekism and Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies are secret police and soviet intelligence agencies.
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Class conflict
In political science, the term class conflict, or class struggle, refers to the political tension and economic antagonism that exist among the social classes of society, because of socioeconomic competition for resources among the social classes, between the rich and the poor.
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Classified information
Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected.
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union. Chekism and Communist Party of the Soviet Union are soviet internal politics.
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Corporatism
Corporatism is a political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together on and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests.
Counterintelligence state
A counterintelligence state (sometimes also called intelligence state, securocracy or spookocracy) is a state where the state security service penetrates and permeates all societal institutions, including the military.
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Cult of personality
A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader,Mudde, Cas and Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2017) Populism: A Very Short Introduction.
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Deep state
A deep state is a type of government made up of potentially secret and unauthorized networks of power operating independently of a state's political leadership in pursuit of their own agenda and goals.
Echo of Moscow
Echo of Moscow (translit) was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow.
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Federal Assembly (Russia)
The Federal Assembly is the bicameral national legislature of Russia.
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Federal Security Service
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.
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Felix Dzerzhinsky
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский; Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin.
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Free Republic
Free Republic is a moderated Internet forum and chat site for self-described conservatives, primarily within the United States.
Grigory Pasko
Grigory Mikhailovich Pasko (Григо́рий Миха́йлович Пасько, born 19 May 1962) is a military Russian journalist, convicted traitor, Amnesty International-designated prisoner of conscience, and founding editor of Ecology and Law, an environmental and citizens' rights magazine.
Ideology
An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Ion Mihai Pacepa (28 October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum.
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James Woolsey
Robert James Woolsey Jr. (born September 21, 1941) is an American political appointee who has served in various senior positions.
KGB
The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991. Chekism and KGB are secret police and soviet intelligence agencies.
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Kommersant
(Коммерсантъ,, The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business.
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda (Комсомольская правда) is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper that was founded in 1925.
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Konstantin Borovoi
Konstantin Natanovich Borovoi (Константи́н Ната́нович Борово́й; born 30 June 1948) is a liberal Russian politician and entrepreneur, Russian Parliament Member (1995–2000), former Chair of Party of Economic Freedom (1992–2003), and Chair of Party Western Choice (since 17 March 2013).
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Leninism
Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.
List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors
Soon after the formation of the Soviet Union, emigration restrictions were put in place to keep citizens from leaving the various countries of the Soviet Socialist Republics, though some defections still occurred.
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Mafia state
In politics, a mafia state or pakhanate is a state system where the government is tied with organized crime to the degree when government officials, the police, and/or military became a part of the criminal enterprise.
Mankurt
Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years.
The current government of Russia maintains laws and practices that make it difficult for directors of mass-media outlets to carry out independent policies.
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Ministry of Defence (Russia)
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации; MOD) is the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; Министерство иностранныхдел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia.
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Mitrokhin Archive
The Mitrokhin Archive refers to a collection of handwritten notes about secret KGB operations spanning the period between the 1930s and 1980s made by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin which he shared with the British intelligence in the early 1990s.
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Nashism
Nashism (нашизм) and Nashists are post-Soviet Russian political neologisms derived from the word "наши" (" ours", i.e., those of the ingroup). Chekism and Nashism are politics of Russia.
Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
(t) is a Russian daily newspaper.
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NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. Chekism and NKVD are secret police and soviet intelligence agencies.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.
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Omertà
Omertà is a Southern Italian code of silence and code of honor and conduct that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders, especially during criminal investigations; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal activities of others (i.e., not contacting law enforcement or the authorities when one is aware of, witness to, or even the victim of certain crimes).
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (abbreviated), or Politburo (p) was the highest political body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and de facto a collective presidency of the USSR.
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Political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.
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Political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics.
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Post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also referred to as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or the former Soviet republics, are the independent sovereign states that emerged/re-emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Power (social and political)
In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors.
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Putin's Russia
Putin's Russia is a political commentary book by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya about events and life in Russia under Vladimir Putin.
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Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.
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Red Terror
The Red Terror (krasnyy terror) was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police.
Ruling class
In sociology, the ruling class of a society is the social class who set and decide the political and economic agenda of society.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Silovik
In the Russian political lexicon, a silovik (p; plural: siloviki, p) is a person who works for any state organisation that is authorised to use force against citizens or others. Chekism and silovik are politics of Russia.
Soviet (council)
A soviet (sovet) is a workers' council that follows a socialist ideology, particularly in the context of the Russian Revolution.
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Soviet Army
The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Sovetskiye sukhoputnye voyska) was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Stalinism
Stalinism is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin.
Stanislav Belkovsky
Stanislav Aleksandrovich Belkovsky (Станисла́в Алекса́ндрович Белко́вский; born 7 February 1971) is a Russian political analyst and communication specialist.
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State capture
State capture is a type of systemic political corruption in which private interests significantly influence a state's decision-making processes to their own advantage.
State Duma
The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia.
Strategic Rocket Forces
The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is a separate-troops branch of the Russian Armed Forces that controls Russia's land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
The St.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thomas McInerney
Thomas McInerney (born March 7, 1937)U.S. Public Records Index Vol.
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Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.
Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
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Vadim Bakatin
Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (Вадим Викторович Бакатин; 6 November 1937 – 31 July 2022) was a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991.
Viktor Cherkesov
Viktor Vasilyevich Cherkesov (Виктор Васильевич Черкесов; 13 July 1950 – 8 November 2022) was a Russian security services official.
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
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Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Markovna Albats (Евге́ния Ма́рковна Альба́ц, born 5 September 1958, Agentura.ru, referring to another web site., Znamya) is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer and radio host.
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Yuri Shchekochikhin
Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin (p; 9 June 1950 – 3 July 2003) was a Soviet and later Russian investigative journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker in the Russian parliament.
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1991 Soviet coup attempt
The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the CPSU at the time.
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See also
Soviet intelligence agencies
- Active measures
- Active reserve (KGB)
- All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission
- Amtorg Trading Corporation
- Cheka
- Chekism
- Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
- Cold War espionage
- Commanders of the border troops USSR and RF
- FSB Criminalistics Institute
- GRU (Soviet Union)
- International Liaison Department of the Communist International
- Joint State Political Directorate
- KGB
- List of Eastern Bloc agents in the United States
- Main Directorate of State Security
- Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union)
- NKVD
- People's Commissariat for State Security
- Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services
- Soviet Government Purchasing Commission in the U.S.
- Soviet spies
- State Political Directorate
- Viktor Yartsev
Soviet internal politics
- A Word to the People
- Architect amidst the Ruins
- Boris, you are wrong
- Chekism
- Collectivization in the Soviet Union
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Cyrillisation in the Soviet Union
- Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)
- Elections in the Soviet Union
- First Department
- Forced migration in the Soviet Union
- Georgian affair
- Glasnost
- History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
- Intensification of the class struggle under socialism
- Intermovement
- International Front of the Working People of Latvia
- Korenizatsiia
- Labor army
- Latinisation in the Soviet Union
- NKVD labor columns
- National communism
- National delimitation in the Soviet Union
- New Union Treaty
- Passport system in the Soviet Union
- Perestroika
- Political repression in the Soviet Union
- Propiska in the Soviet Union
- Russification
- Ryutin affair
- Smychka
- Soviet grain procurement crisis of 1928
- Soviet passport
- Sovietization
- Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair
- Titular nation
- Transfer of Crimea in the Soviet Union
- Ukrainization
- Ural-Siberian method
- Wolf's ticket
- Yestonians
- Zhdanov Doctrine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism
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